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The latest discoveries about your blood pressure

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Persons aged fifty-years old or older should have their blood pressure taken in both arms to verify if the measurements match. Middle-aged people usually have higher blood pressure in one of the arms. This procedure is done to find out the true blood pressure so that nonexistent hypertension is not treated.

Author: Lynbrook, Michael
Publisher: Retirement Living Publishing Company Inc.
Publication Name: New Choices for Retirement Living
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 1061-2157
Year: 1993
Middle aged persons, Health aspects, Care and treatment, Hypertension, Measurement, Blood pressure, Blood pressure measurement

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Novello, Antonia

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Antonia Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic appointed as Surgeon General. Self-confident, compassionate and diplomatic, she was born in Puerto Rico on Aug 23, 1944. She is against abortion, and has started campaigns against alcohol advertising and domestic violence.

Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 1992
Officials and employees, Biography, Health-officers, Health officers, United States. Public Health Service, Novello, Antonia C.

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Sole mates

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A father describes the effect of a divorce on his relationship with his daughter. Feelings of inadequacy are discussed, as he tries to maintain their relationship intact. A shopping excursion helps him realize that things are still well between the two of them.

Author: Cohen, Edward M.
Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Parenting
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0890-247X
Year: 1996
Personal narratives, Fathers and daughters, Father-daughter relations, Divorced fathers

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